Critics railed against a bill recently passed in the U.S. House intended to crack down on antisemitism, asserting that it goes too far and will result in a violation of all Americans’ free speech rights. The bill, dubbed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, passed in the House on Wednesday by a 320-91 vote, with overwhelming bipartisan support from lawmakers. The bill, …
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Five West Virginia middle school girls banned from participating in track and field meets after they protested against a trans athlete last week are allowed to compete again, a judge ruled Thursday night. Judge Thomas A. Bedell issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the Harrison Board of Education and its schools from penalizing student-athletes for their speech. The school board …
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The House voted to expand the legal definition of antisemitism used to enforce anti-discrimination laws at a time when anti-Israel protests are raging at college campuses across the country. The bill overwhelmingly passed the House by a 320-91 vote, netting a majority of Republicans and Democrats. If passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden, the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness …
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Firearms were confiscated at student protests at both the University of South Florida(USF) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) over the last two days, authorities say. Anti-Israel protester Atah Othman, 39, was one of 10 demonstrators arrested on the USF campus on Tuesday — and he was busted carrying a gun in his waistband, Fox 13 Tampa …
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Conservative and free speech advocacy groups are warily eyeing a new bipartisan push in Congress to hire antisemitism monitors for colleges and universities that receive federal dollars. “These antisemitism monitors are not novel. For the last 10 or so years, college bureaucrats have created bias reporting systems, which have been used to cancel students accused of ‘wrongthink.’ Not only are …
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One of the Columbia University students who bravely tried to stop a mob of anti-Israel protesters from taking over an academic building last night tells Fox News Digital they tried to delay the agitators long enough so that police or security could arrive on the scene to back them up – but ultimately neither of them showed. Rory Wilson, a …
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Starting at Columbia University and spreading across elite universities, pro-Hamas protesters have taken over their campuses, erecting tent cities and blocking the normal operations of their schools. Worse, they have targeted Jewish students with threats of violence, organized human chains to push “Zionists” out of public spaces and sent a Jewish student to the hospital after stabbing her in the …
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Conservative Brazilians heaped praise Sunday on Elon Musk at a rally in support of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whose legal troubles are mounting in tandem with the billionaire entrepreneur’s feud with the South American nation’s Supreme Court. “Brazil Thanks Elon Musk,” read one giant sign in English at the rally alongside Copacabana beach in the seaside city of Rio de …
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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger took aim at his successor, Katherine Maher, whose past comments about free speech have resurfaced since taking over the now scandal-plagued NPR as its CEO and president. City Journal’s Christopher Rufo has been unearthing comments Maher had made during her tenure as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. In one clip Rufo shared Thursday morning, Maher …
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., has claimed that the Thursday arrest of fellow “Squad” member Rep.Ilhan Omar’s daughter at anti-Israel protests at Columbia University was political payback for the congresswoman’s probing of the institution’s leadership the day before. Bowman said Omar, D-Minn., had questioned Columbia leadership’s commitment to “free academic expression” during afiery congressional hearingon Wednesday and the following day her …
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